Hi all,
I have a Dell Latitude C810 laptop. Video card: NVIDIA GeForce2 Go. Video memory: 32MB LCD screen: 1600x1200 pixels
When I run Puppy-421, I get some white hairlines popping along the left vertical edge of the screen. Each line may show for a split second and disappear. There may be 20-70 lines at any given moment. It kind of looks like they are 'dancing' along the screen edge. Lines are horizontal and less than 1/2 inch (12mm) long. The rest of the screen appears fine.
I have xorg settings set to 1600x1200 resolution, 16 bit.
This problem does not happen in Windows XP.
What could it be?

I tried 1280x1024 resolution and it removed the hairlines but then I had a black border and was not using the full screen.
Windows is using 60Hz refresh rate. But, probably more importantly, it uses the correct driver from NVIDIA.
I tried tweaking refresh rate in xorg.conf. The only times it helped was when a new refresh rate forced the screen to a lower resolution, again resulting in black border.
I also tried the generic video driver in xorgwizard, but the screen was too distorted. I could only see about half of the dialog box.
Here is some info from xorgwizard at 1600x1200x16 resolution:

Code:

Horizontal frequency: 74.01KHz
Refresh frequency: 59.92KHz
The current driver being used by Xorg is 'nv'
board info: 'NV11 [GeForce2 Go]'

Vertical frequency in xorg.conf is set to 60. But it looks like the actual frequency is 59.92 Could this be the problem? How do I force it to a 60.00?

I just tried Puppy-431 and unfortunately I got the same problem with video.
By the way, as in Puppy-421, the hairlines get more pronounced when I have a white object in a certain area on the screen.
Divide the screen into four equal columns, and name them one to four, from left to right. Now if I place a white or a light-colored object in column three, the hairlines get worse.

Some of this may be monitor's fault. But this being a laptop, I will have to use it. I don't want to replace the display. Besides, it works well in win xp and xubuntu.
I guess my next step is to try slaxer pup.
And if that fails, I will try to figure out a way to get xubuntu's video driver installed on puppy.
What constitutes a video driver? Is it just a file I can copy? Where are the video drivers located in puppy? How do I make xorg use a particular driver?

No joy downloading http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/big_bass/Slaxer_pup%20ISO/Slaxer_Pup-412.iso
I could not get wget to do it. Error 404: Not found.
Downloading from a browser stopped at 12MB and said download in finished.

I went to http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48019
and installed package xf86-video-nv-2.1.15-i486.pet
Still no changes in video.
xorgwizard says that 'nv' driver is being used. If I should be using a different driver after installing the package, how do I do it?

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